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Amanda Spielman accused Bridget Phillipson of bowing to the demands of unions and prioritising them over children

School leaders attacked as ‘an unaccountable elite’ after years of below-inflation pay rises for teachers

Mr Hewston had worked for Ofsted since 2007 when he was ‘unfairly dismissed’

Sir Martyn Oliver, chief inspector of Ofsted, said giving parents the information they need in a clear and accessible way was a ‘must-have’.

Manny Botwe, president of the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), will call for an end to the ‘chaos’ caused by social media.

The report says years of leadership churn have worsened care leaver support

Exclusive: Former BNP activist Matt Single also taught children to fire gas-powered air pistol pellets at a screen labelled ‘BBC’

The number of complaints to the education watchdog following school inspections has risen by 60% over three years, figures suggest.

An 11-year-old at a school in Essex was recently reported to have been given a detention for not achieving 90% on his maths homework (he got 81%). This measure by his school comes in an environment when schools in England seem to be increasingly reaching for severe methods of punishment:…

Change is underway at Ofsted, England’s schools inspectorate. Headline judgments that summed up a whole school in one or two words have been discarded in favour of a proposed report card system that promises to offer a more rounded assessment of school quality.

Martyn Oliver says less office-going since pandemic has led to a shift in attitudes among pupils in England